The ex-Dell exec’s penthouse in Texas has a view of Lady Bird Lake. The president’s fundraising dinner at the Austin downtown Four Seasons residence of former Dell Inc. finance chief Tom Meredith capped a $4-million fundraising day in Austin and...

Payback is priceless. Texas Governor Rick Perry, who challenged Republican Mitt Romney for the party’s presidential nomination — and criticized Romney’s private-equity business as “vulture capitalism” – has joined a bipartisan chorus ranging from the Obama campaign to a former...

Harris Stanley, the most youthful manger in major league baseball, with President Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Grace Coolidge just before the start of the opening game in Washington between the Senators and the Athletics.Photograph by AP

The Bush library is out with its first book. That’s the George W. Bush Presidential Center, its establishment with a library and think tank at the alma mater of former first lady Laura Bush generating no small controversy on the...

A runoff election for a House seat today between two North Carolina Republicans is unusual for the intervention of party leaders and outside groups. Richard Hudson, a former chief of staff to three House members, is the preferred candidate of...

For years, John McCain’s name was synonymous with campaign finance reform. Bruised by his exposure to a scandal in his early years as a senator involving Arizona businessman Charles Keating, a generous campaign contributor who sought help with federal banking...

It’s not every day that governors pitch potential vendors on a request for proposal. But yesterday, the governors of Oklahoma and Colorado met with executives from General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Fiat SpA’s Chrysler Group LLC, to ask...

President Barack Obama plans to raise about $4 million at campaign fundraisers in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, today. The president will scour a state that votes Republican in presidential elections — the home of former President George W. Bush...

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama's 2011 tax returns. They paid 20.5 percent federal tax rate on $789,674 in adjusted gross income for 2011, according to the returns released today by the White House.

There’s often a price to pay for political decisions. This is the price that President Barack Obama and the Democrats want Republican Mitt Romney to pay for releasing no more than two years of personal tax returns: “Tax havens, offshore...

The suspicion among many in the political world is that the prospect of Republican Mitt Romney unveiling his vice presidential pick this week — a scenario floated yesterday by veteran aide Eric Fehrnstrom — is more head fake than heads...

That was the percentage-point margin of victory for President Barack Obama in Pennsylvania in 2008. It was the biggest winning margin there for a Democratic White House candidate in 44 years. The Nov. 6 election in Pennsylvania probably will be closer...